Appam - Thengapal Kurma

This is one of the many recipes available for aapam.

Wash and soak all the below ingredients in water for 4 hrs:

Raw Rice - 1 cup

Urad Dhal - 1 cup
Poha or Aval -  1/3 cup
Vendhayam/Methi-1/2 tsp

Grind them finely. You can add a handful of cooked rice to it - optional. Add salt and allow it to ferment overnight. The next day morning, mix the batter and dilute it with water so the batter is little runny.

Grease the hot appam kadai with little oil. Pour 1 laddle of batter and swirl it so the batter coats the surface and forms a circle. Cover and cook for couple of mins or until the sides of the apam leave the kadai.

You can also swirl the kadai in such a way to make a flower shaped Aapam as shown in the picture above. Kids would love it. :)

Serve hot with sweetened coconut milk or kuruma.